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THE HS2 HISTORICAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT PROJECT
The UK government plans to build a high-speed rail line from London to Birmingham capable of carrying passenger trains at speeds up to 250 miles per hour. The planned line would cross Buckinghamshire from end to end, entering at Denham, passing Amersham and Aylesbury, and leaving near Chetwode in the north. ‘HS1’ is the Channel Tunnel Rail Link which already joins London to the south coast at Folkestone. The HS2 would provide a similar line to join London to Birmingham at a currently estimated cost of £32 billion. The eventual plan is to extend this northwards to Manchester and Leeds, then onwards to Scotland. The government – and its consultants, HS2 Limited – argue that this high-speed rail network ‘would transform the country's economic geography’, bringing Britain's major cities closer together, and so producing growth in employment, economic growth and prosperity.
2: The Opposition to HS2
Naturally BAS is in no way responsible for the contents of these independent websites. The BAS Historical Impact Assessment To view the society's own work in assessing the impact of the HS2 proposals on the historic environment of Buckinghamshire, in the Chilterns, the Vale of Aylesbury and the north of the county, click on any of the links at the top of the page.
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